Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 32 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 33 | Their lives lay with the capitalist world he had hated so bitterly in his own youth . |
| 34 | Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly . |
| 35 | A thin , silky mist hung over the city , reminding Merrill of the water-colour townscapes which , in her gentler moods , Elise had painted so well . |
| 36 | His pupils were developing minds of their own , behaving out of character , no longer the dull but devoted group of enthusiasts he had taught so constructively for six months . |
| 37 | He stopped all experimentation at this stage to examine the information he had gathered so far . |
| 38 | When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 39 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 40 | It was as if , all of a sudden , all the hidden anxieties and fears she had hidden so expertly were now overwhelming her . |
| 41 | His own queen , whom Surere had revered so deeply , when she requested that she be buried not in the new City of the Horizon , but near her old home , in the Valley of the Dead across the river from the Southern Capital , had been granted her wish , though it had hurt Akhenaten deeply . |
| 42 | We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly . |
| 43 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 44 | When some part of his mind prompted the words that he had heard so often , boyish fancy , his inside actually jerked in protest . |
| 45 | He repeated the phrases he had heard so often on TV but Ralph sneered . |
| 46 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 47 | Not a single fact she had heard so far was relevant to the case . |
| 48 | She reported that there was a general feeling of satisfaction with the standard of publicity that the Year had received so far from the media . |
| 49 | Reaching the junction of the Yellowstone and Canyon Creek , Looking Glass rode ahead to council with the Crow chiefs on whom he had relied so heavily . |
| 50 | This involved the creation of an Intendant-General of Finance and a number of Secretaries of State : the cumbersome system of councils on which the Spanish Habsburgs had relied so heavily in the previous century began to fall into disuse , the Council of Castile alone remaining important . |
| 51 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 52 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 53 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 54 | His deep , deep penetration of her came when they could hold back no longer , when the sensuality had swollen so painfully inside them that it cried out for release . |
| 55 | But what of Dorothy 's reputation , which she herself had guarded so zealously all these years ? |
| 56 | It was impossible to believe that they had fallen so mathematically into place by themselves . |
| 57 | Polls suggested that Kennedy 's approval rating amongst his Massachusetts constituents had fallen so dramatically following the episode that he might fail to secure re-election in 1994 . |
| 58 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 59 | Miss Lowe had become very ill , her blood sugar level had fallen so low it was unrecordable in a test , and in hospital she had been diagnosed as suffering insulin-induced hypoglycaemia , lack of sugar in the blood . |
| 60 | He knew the moves , he had won so easily , but now something like a ouija board . |